Posted 02 August 2010 - 09:15 PM

oldnapalm

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Do you know what may cause this?I'm getting bash: ./fdisk: No such file or directory

The package you are using doesn't contain fdisk (no fdisk in current directory), or maybe it's called fdisk440 like in Chameleon RC5. You can get it from Chameleon binaries and put it inside the i386 folder you are using.

I followed this after having no luck using Chameleon installers. Everything went smoothly and as the tutorial stated - but now my SL 10.6.4 hangs at the Apple screen with the loading circle. Any ideas? Will I have to reinstall the OS?

It happened after you installed Chameleon? How did you boot into Snow Leopard before?Use verbose mode to see the system messages, you are probably missing some kext.

To answer some questions:1) I'm doing this with Chimera 1.4.1 (same thing as Chameleon, I'd think...)2) I'm not doing a multi OS setup. The FAT32 partition is just what I'm going to format into an HFS + partition later once I get this figured out.3) My bios is set to AHCI mode for the SATA HD Controller.4) I AM doing this from the Mac OSX install I'm trying to boot.5) This is on a laptop - Acer Inspire 7740G - Core i5 - ATI5650m - 4GB DDR3 on 2 sticks - 750GB Seagate 7200rpm

Here's some questions I have:1) What am I doing wrong?2) Would it be easier to do this operation from another Mac? 3) Could I do this from a Mac OSX Virtual Machine? - Answered: No... not recommended to do FDISK commands to a physical drive from VMWare.

Any feedback or advice would be helpful. And thanks in advance... I've been at this for some time.

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EDIT: Here's what I did wrong - I had to write the change to the main OS disk from another install of OSX.

TLDR Fix: If you can't get Chimera/Chameleon to install, write the changes from another install of OSX that's not your primary drive.

I did my OSX Install on my 750GB disk per normal. After the 10.6.8 update, I pulled the drive out and loaded in a freshly formatted original 500GB drive.

I then proceeded to install OSX on the 500 GB drive. Once it was done, I booted back to the 500GB with #####, loaded the 750GB drive into the SATA to USB adapter, mounted the external and proceeded to do the steps above on that drive, which was posted as Disk2 in my setup.

After I loaded boot0 and boot1h onto the 750GB external, I swapped drives again. I was then able to load Chimera without the ##### CD.